Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] on Friday launched a pi...
LAGOS - Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] on Friday launched a pilot test of a boat service in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos to attract commuters seeking to avoid the megacity’s notoriously congested roads.
The combination of population growth and congestion has made Nigeria, and more broadly West Africa, attractive to foreign transport companies. “This initiative is aimed at providing commuters with an easy and affordable way to get in and out of the city’s business districts,” Uber said in a statement.
At a press conference on Friday, Uber officials said there would be four trips a day, carrying up to 35 people on a boat, during the two-week pilot.
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